A view of youth, their life perspectives for the future and what they think about the place they live, the city of ABC, a metropolitan area around São Paulo best known for its countless auto industry complexes. Francisco César Filho interviews two teenagers and one young adult who share some brief descriptions about their lives and what they think about the place of which they don't see much diversions and distractions to do there - a low-income area is what's shown here - but they find ways to get truly involved with what they do such as perfoming on a punk rock garage group or rolling down ball-bearing carts.

It's always fascinating to see documents from different times than the ones one had lived, there's plenty of nostalgic values in this video project showing how strange everything was back in the early 1990's, a critical times in Brazilian society and economy. The youth of then had obvious reasons to be dissatisfied with everything, the future looked bleak at all times specially if you lived in a grey and weird-looking town as that - Ramalho's film insists in showing us the countless factories polluting the air (one of the rare colored moments, mostly is black-and-white and grey) or the trains moving around non-stop carrying the masses (back when the metropolitan company of trains was a mess, I have vague memories of people going on board of those trains hanging on the outside trying to not to fall).

Yet despite of everything I'd like to think they managed to live and breathe the future, maybe more hopefully than what they imagined. I'd really like to know what happened to all of them. Maybe the rock singer broke out to fame and I don't even know, since many punk groups came from the very ABC area. 6/10.

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A brief overview about the ABC complex in São Paulo state as described and viewed by its youth residents talking about their life, the frustrations, how they view the city - best known for its industrial facilities - and what they do to have a good time.

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